And Vija Celmins’ larger-than-life 1970 comb sculpture looks as if it was lifted from Magritte’s “Personal Values” (1952), a collage of oversized personal effects.

Art History Nothing Is What It Seems in Magritte’s Most Iconic Artwork We dove into the visual riddle that is René Magritte's 'The Treachery of Images'—art history's most infamous pipe.

In “The Treachery of Images” (1929), Magritte depicts a pipe with the slogan “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”: “This is not a pipe.” Not a real pipe, that is: We are told it is only the ...

You won't travel far down the list of art’s most recognizable images before landing on Rene Magritte’s The Son of Man, on display now through October 28 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

René Magritte loved tales of mystery, and the best approach to understanding the iconic artist’s life is as a mystery. So argues an insightful and broad-reaching new biography by the late Alex ...

A day after Sotheby’s tested the strength of the trophy market with its $65.5 million Claude Monet, rival Christie’s did one better—by auctioning off a $121.2 million René Magritte.

See the wonders of Magritte, Magritte, and more Magritte! If this spiel sounds familiar, that’s because it’s summer blockbuster season. Even though that usually means something extravagant like last ...